Did you have problems with your tomatoes this season?

Virtual Green Binder

Good news for gardeners entering their work hours or checking their work hours.

You can now check your hours without entering hours in. Go to the tab
"Virtual Green Binder" on the website and a dropdown list will show on hover:

> Hours Worked

> Enter Hours Worked

Each gardener is expected to contribute an hour a month to Sunshine,
if you're unsure what to do check with your zone coordinator and
watch this space. In addition one hour per six months is required to
be completed for projects for Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Find out about Bee Keeping

There will be a tour of bee hives around town on August 17th. Ticket price
$5.00 If you are interested here is the website for more info.

Pollinator Talk: All about Texas Native Bees

Native bees are the most important pollinators of flowering plants in
Texas. This session will focus on:

The basics of bee identification

Separating bees from other flower-visiting insects

Major native bee groups

How to conduct bee surveys and process specimens

Host: Michael D. Warriner, Invertebrate Biologist, TPWD

Cost: Free with admission to Garden, $2/adults, $1/children and seniors
RSVP by emailing Anjoli.Fry@austintexas.gov
or by calling (512) 477-8672 X17.

Mentoring opportunity

We often have new gardeners who are new to gardening. We're looking for seasoned
gardeners who wish to share their expertise and gardening wisdom with the newbies
or with people on the wait list. Mentoring can take as little or as much time as
you want. Mentoring might involve showing them your plot and talking about how you
do things to having them help you maintain your plot. If you're interested in being
a mentor, please contact Kay McMurry at
scg.plots@gmail.com.

Thought
for the week

It would be an anomaly to find
a student of nature addicted to the vices that cast so many dark shadows
on our social life; nor do I remember among the sad annals of criminal
history, one instance of a naturalist who became a criminal, or of a
single gardener who has been hanged.